Chapter 14. Lighting, Rendering, and a Little Bit of Compositing

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

• Setting the library and the 3D scene layout
• Setting image based lighting (IBL)
• Setting a three-point lighting rig in Blender Internal
• Rendering an OpenGL playblast of the animation
• Obtaining a noise-free and faster rendering in Cycles
• Compositing the render layers

Introduction

In this last chapter, we are going to see recipes about the more common stages needed to render the complete final animation: lighting techniques in both the render engines, fast rendering previews, rendering settings, and the integrated compositing.

But first, let's see the necessary preparation of the 3D scene layout.